Casie Stewart's Fave Mobile Social Apps
Cassie Stewart and Mad Hatter Technology Agency Director Melanie Witzell chat apps after the Social Summit event. Check out the apps Casie uses to manage her social media - on the go, on the mobile, all the time. Zite Zite is an intelligent magazine that helps you discover interesting things to read…
Using Drush to work on Drupal sites more Efficiently.
Have you ever built a website in Drupal, then a few months later needed to update some modules, or even worse, need to update the Drupal core? Before Drush existed, you would need to check the available updates, download each one, and manually install them. If those module updated changed the database, you would also have to run the…
Flat and minimal: Trending for good reason
In the days of an excessive society where everyone seeks the biggest, fastest, and loudest, it’s surprising that design is moving in an entirely opposite direction. The world of flat and minimal designs is emerging. Granted, minimal design has been around since the 60’s to early 70’s, but never before has it been this notably predominant…
What is Big Data?
Lately there has been a lot of buzz around the words ‘Big Data’. It was all about just ‘data’ in the past and then all of a sudden there is a lot of talk about ‘Big data’. So what has changed? In my opinion – nothing. Data is data - be it small or big. It’s the process of how this data is converted into valuable information that has…
Our Commitment to You
We are always looking for ways to improve our customer service. With more and more emails arriving and cluttering up inboxes, it’s easy for things to get lost in the mix or not prioritized properly. We believed your customer support could be done differently - more importantly - better. So, we set out on a mission to find the best…
Tech Gadgets Irish I Owned
Today we all have the luck of Irish, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. If you want to make your friends green with envy be sure to check out these innovative gadgets. 1. Google Glasses allows you to experience augmented reality with a head-mounted computer. It displays information in a smart-phone like format that is hands…
10 Canadian tech starlets you need to know
At Mad Hatter Technology Inc., our team was inspired by International Women’s Day, which has evolved since its inception in the early 1900’s. March 8, the official International Women’s Day, is now celebrated in almost every country, and is a national holiday in many of them. So take a look at these ten talented Canadian Women…
WebView Easiest On BB10: A single point comparison of native code across four mobile platforms
I was recently tasked with developing a mobile application that would work across BlackBerry 6, iOS 6, Android 2.1 and BlackBerry 10. This was my first time working with BlackBerry 10, and one striking point of comparison has given me hope for BlackBerry’s future. The app was to be built natively (for reasons beyond the scope of this article,…
Student Leadership Conference
Innovation, leadership, collaboration and the sharing of ideas were the themes of the day and this is exactly what transpired, as the energetic students cheered, danced, texted, tweeted, listened and learned how to go out in the world and do great things.
Dare to Think Different
Ideas can often be stalled or not let outside the box by the risk averse. Sometimes, but certainly not always, these are left-brained individuals. However, if left and right-brained thinking works together, either in the capacity of one individual or leader, or within a team; or if a left brained leader has a skew of right brain risk and…
Creative That Feels Human
It's amazing what happens when great ideas and great design collide. Take thehumanproject.us website, with the ambitious goals of connecting people together to talk about the challenges and opportunities we face as a species, and the good sense to frame their project in a clear, clean, and striking way on their homepage. When we arrived…
Social Media Ref
On October 25 I attended my first Social Media Ref, which is a panel of industry experts, journalists, bloggers, and influencers who debate on topics relating to social media. Cision - The Social Media Ref? from Frayed Media on Vimeo. The event was well organized by Cision Canada, and encouraged a conversation about…
Colour You Can Count On
Setting your company's colour standards is a small detail with far reaching and potentially expensive implications. It's common for organizations to have communications materials that don't quite match. Where these problems can be apparent is in a trade-show environment, when business cards, brochures, sales sheets, promotional products…
Pass on Passwords
Did you know you can copy files from server to server without using passwords? Well you can, and here's how. If you're a Linux sysadmin, you frequently need to copy files from one Linux box to another. Or, you may need to distribute a file to multiple boxes. You could use FTP, but using scp has many advantages. For instance, scp is much…
3 Great Reasons to Create a Site Using Responsive Web Design
We’ve all been there. You’re scrolling through your news feed and come across a headline that leads to what should be a great article. Or perhaps you need to do some banking on the go. The problem? The page opens and looks something like this: Frustrated or indifferent, you either try to wend your way through the site or you simply…
Untangling the Web wrap-up
The first event in our Marketing Technology Series, Untangling the Web, discussed the evolution of the digital brandscape and how it compliments businesses. So what is digital brandscape? It is the collection of digital imprints of your company, from social media platforms to websites to blogs to mobile and tablet apps. In the past, the ‘…
Start Your Search Engines: Mad Hatter Tech Goes Under the SEO Hood
The job of a search engine is to connect people with the things they are looking for online. A great business knows that an effective online presence starts by providing people with the information they need about its products and/or services across all of its digital real estate. The process is a little more complex than providing great…
Digital eMotion
The last of Mad Hatter’s Marketing Technology Series, Digital eMotion, looked at new ways to connect with customers through interactive experiences. From turning cars into video game controllers (as shown above) to dancing with Mickey Mouse, we dazzled the audience with awesome, thought provoking, digital possibilities.…
Measured in Milliseconds
According to Digital Inspiration, there are more than 182 million websites on the internet. Most major search engines prepare for certain search requests ahead of time using a technique called indexing. They need to index millions of pages which means that their crawlers need to evaluate your entire site in a small fraction of seconds. The…
Book Review: The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design
I recently finished reading The Book of CSS3 - A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design by Peter Gasston. The Book of CSS3 uses real-world examples to teach developers the fundamentals of the CSS3 specification, highlighting the latest developments and future features, while paying close attention to current browser …